The house where a schoolgirl was mauled to death by four dogs has been boarded up while police continued to carry out investigations.

Beverley Concannon, 53, is thought to have been in hiding ever since her two Bull Mastiff and two Staffordshire Bull Terriers dogs mauled 14-year old Jade Lomas-Anderson as they went for her meat pie.

Now the mother of five's house has been sealed off by the council following requests by the police.

Boarded up: A police officer stands guard next to the home where Jade had been attacked and died

Scene: Jade Lomas-Anderson was attacked by four dogs at the house in Atherton, Wigan

Attack: Kimberley Concannon shrieked for help after she found her 14-year-old best friend lying covered in dog bites at the house (pictured)

Ashley Crumbley, chief executive of Wigan and Leigh Housing, said: 'We are working closely with the police and they have asked us to secure the property.

'Temporary boards were fitted last night and today the property will be fully secured using specialist screens.'

Kimberley Concannon shrieked for help after she found her 14-year-old best friend lying
covered in dog bites on her kitchen floor after the savage attack.

Jade
and her best friend had been celebrating the start of their Easter
holidays on Tuesday and had been about to eat their lunch when
Kimberly's mother's pet dogs pounced on the schoolgirl in a frenzied
attack.

The schoolgirl had carried a pie into her friend's kitchen when the dogs pounced on her, inflicting fatal injuries.

Superintendent Mark Kenny said: 'The decision to board up the house was taken to ensure it remains sterile and secure; it is vital absolutely nobody gets into that house.

'Given the incident that happened at the address we are working with the housing provider to ensure it is treated sensitively.

'The address is currently unoccupied and measures such as boarding up windows are normal under these circumstances, and any reports of fears of vigilante attacks are exaggerated.'

Remembering: A candlelight vigil was held for 14-year-old Jade Anderson at Fred Longworth High School in Greater Manchester

As police investigations continued
today into Tuesday afternoon's tragedy a woman who knows Concannon came
out in support of her on Facebook - saying the dogs would be treated as
heroes if they had attacked a burglar.

Danielle
Cain whose friend accepted a puppy from Concannon said: 'Bev took this
dog in after it had a bad start with a bad family. She took care of her
dogs. A friend got a puppy off one of the staffs and he's amazing.

'It's
an absolutely terrible thing what's happened to Jade but if she was a
burglar or something we would all be saying good on the dog!

Bev Concannon's dogs have been put down after Jade was mauled to death

'We just need to think that the dog
was protecting its territory that's how dogs are trained to behave, if a
stranger has entered its home then it's a natural instinct especially
if none of the family was present.

'Glad that the dog has been dealt
with but leave Bev alone I think she will be distraught enough without
all this trouble. Jades family want to grieve in peace.'

Another Facebook poster Jayne Pandora
Acton said: 'What you have to remember is she has children too. Again,
we know its not right what has happened to Jade, and it could have been
one of her own children don't forget.

'But this woman is petrified because
of muppets going for her to harm her. Leave it to the law to deal with,
you are not animals!!

'You are all talking about the dogs
being dangerous and I have just read there are lynch mobs looking for
her. They are just as bad as the dogs, now leave it to the police.'

Supintendent Mark Kenny said: 'We are now two days into our investigation and clearly we still have numerous inquiries to make and people we need to speak to.

'First and foremost, our thoughts remain with Jade's family following her tragic death, who are completely devastated by the loss they have suffered. They are trying to make sense out of this awful situation and understandably are looking for answers.

'Therefore speculation about the fact the investigation has already concluded and that there will be no prosecutions is both inaccurate and even more distressing to the family.

'I want to make it clear that we have made absolutely no decision on whether any prosecutions will be brought.

'It is extremely important for Jade's family that we conduct a thorough investigation into the facts and speak to everyone involved so we can build up an accurate picture of the events leading up to Jade's tragic death.

'I do not want to be drawn on issues of legislation surrounding dangerous dogs at this time - my focus is to establish the facts and give Jade's family the answers they deserve. So again I would stress that absolutely no decision about the status of this investigation has been made and our inquiries will continue.'

Jade's heartbroken boyfriend, Josh Pheasey, said that she was a kind and beautiful person, who would 'never hurt a fly'.

Josh Pheasey, 13, who met the teenager at their school, told The Sun: 'Jade such a nice, beautiful girl and wouldn't hurt a fly.

'I'm still in shock I don't know what I'm going to do. I just know that I miss her.'

The grandmother of Jade, who was killed on Tuesday after she slept over at her
friend Kimberley’s home in Atherton, near Wigan, said the family were 'devastated' by the tragedy, The Sun reported.

Grieving Kathleen Holden said: 'She
was full of life. The family is so distressed. She was our angel.'

Jade lived with her family in a nearby house and was a pupil at Fred Longworth High School in Tyldesley

The dogs' owner and Kimberley's mother, Bev Concannon, is not expected to be prosecuted because the discredited
Dangerous Dogs Act only covers attacks on private property if they
involve illegal breeds.

The dogs are understood to be two
Staffordshire bull terriers and two bull mastiffs, which can be legally owned, so the mother-of-five probably won’t face court
action over the death of the teenager.

Kimberley and Jade had spent the morning together and Miss Concannon, 44, had gone into town to do some shopping.

At lunch the two school friends went round to a neighbour’s house to ask her to warm some pies up for them in her oven.

Jade
is believed to have returned first with her pie and is understood to
have gone into the kitchen on her own where she was suddenly set upon by
the dogs.

The question of
whether it was the smell of the food she was carrying or something else
that led to the attack, police say will form part of a complex
investigation.

Beware: A sign warning people on the house where Jade was savaged by the dogs

Senior officers say she was jumped on by the dogs and was badly mauled.

She had bites all over her body, including catastrophic injuries to her neck and throat.

Neighbour Chloe Dewett, 12, said: ‘Kimberley went back into the house with her pie and saw Jade lying there on the floor.

‘She
screamed and ran back to the neighbour’s house shouting “She’s dead,
She’s dead”. The neighbour called police and they came rushing to the
house.’

Desperate attempts were made to save the schoolgirl as she lay on the floor but she died from her injuries.

One of the dogs involved, Buddy, was seen ‘covered in blood’.

A
neighbour said: ‘I looked through the back garden fence and the white
dog wasn’t white, it was orange. It must have been the blood of the
little girl. It was horrible.’

She told how police herded four of the dogs into the back yard before marksmen opened fire and shot them dead.

Michael Reid, 41, said: ‘The police took up positions where they could clearly see the dogs and there were nine shots.

‘The shots rang out across the estate – it was quite an eerie thing. Then Bev returned from her shopping trip.

‘She
was totally distraught. She couldn’t believe what had happened. She was
screaming in grief for Jade, for her dogs for everything. It was
heartbreaking.

‘There was blood all over the back yard. It was absolutely horrific. It is such a shocking tragedy.’

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Bev Concannon, 44, had admitted to
friends that even she was wary of her powerfully-built pets, while
neighbours were terrified of them and postmen dreaded calling at the
house.

But, because the discredited
Dangerous Dogs Act only covers attacks on private property if they
involve illegal breeds, the mother-of-five probably won’t face court
action over the death of 14-year-old Jade Lomas-Anderson.

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Jade Lomas-Anderson (left) was mauled by four dogs as she ate lunch at the house of Bev Concannon (right)

Police stress that Miss Concannon is
not currently being treated as a suspect and is co-operating with their
inquiries.

Vets are conducting
tests on the bodies of the four dogs shot by police to establish whether
any were outlawed breeds.

However, they are understood to be two
Staffordshire bull terriers and two bull mastiffs – breeds which can be
legally owned.

A fifth dog, believed to be a shih tzu, was not involved in the attack and was taken away.

Put down: Buddy, a Bull Mastiff, was also one of the dogs destroyed by armed police

Tuesday’s attack – which friends say
erupted after Jade came into the house in Atherton, near Wigan, with a
warm meat pie for her lunch – yesterday brought renewed calls for a
wider crackdown on irresponsible dog owners.

The animals were notorious among neighbours, but no one is believed to have complained to police or the local council.

Neighbours of Miss Concannon on the Hag Fold estate said they used to keep their children away from her council maisonette.

Dogs: Bull mastiffs 'Neo' (left, front left) and 'Buddy' (left, white dog), two of Beverley Concannon's
dogs said to have savaged Jade. Mrs Concannon last year was selling
puppies (right) on Facebook

The back yard of the house where Jade died yesterday

Michael Reid, 41, a father of two
daughters, said: ‘When children walked past, the dogs would rush at the
fencing or gates with a terrifying snarling and barking.

They were
completely wired, very aggressive and very scary. My daughters called
them “Devil Dogs”.’

Mr Reid said a bull mastiff called
Buddy was ‘the pack leader and the others followed, so when he was
aggressive then so were the others’.

A police forensic officer investigates the scene where 14-year-old Jade Anderson was found dead. There was a warning sign on the side of the fence

Another neighbour said the dogs were
almost always cooped up in the back garden. ‘Bev hardly ever took them
out for a walk,’ he said. ‘They were hyped up because they had nowhere
to let off steam.’

Police said neither they nor any other
agencies had received complaints from members of the public about the
dogs. Postal workers had also expressed concern but hadn’t formally
complained.

The
mother of five children by two different fathers was in hiding after
being interviewed by police, but relatives said even she had been
fearful of one of the mastiffs.

Tragic: A Facebook photo of Jade Anderson who was found dead at a house in Atherton

Rocky
Fearnley, 39, the father of her 16-year-old twins, Kimberley – whom
Jade was visiting – and Katrina, said his ex-partner always ‘took them
away’ when people visited.

‘When
she got the big bull mastiff, she was always very careful with him
around people,’ he said. ‘He looked a scary dog, she was wary of him.’

Mr
Fearnley said Miss Concannon had been estranged from her mother, Carol
Luby, since childhood. Her mother remarried when she was eight. She is
understood to have rowed with her 20-year-old son Anthony, who has moved
away and wrote on Facebook that he ‘couldn’t believe’ what his mother’s
dogs had done.

Flowers and tributes are laid near the scene where the incident took place yesterday

Police forensics officers arrive to investigate the scene where a 14-year-old girl was found dead amid five aggressive dogs

Police have said it was 'too early to speculate about what took place' at the house in Atherton

Closed: Police cordoned off Chaucer Grove where the body of Jade Anderson was found yesterday